The BITSEA is a brief screener of children's social or emotional behavior problems and competencies based on the Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (ITSEA). As with the ITSEA, it was designed to identify children with deficits or delays in these areas, with positive screens to be followed by administration of the full ITSEA. The measure yields a Problem Total Score and a Competence Total Score. There are two versions, a Parent Form and a Childcare Provider Form, both are reviewed in this database.

Domain(s) Assessed :

Psychosocial Functioning

Subcategories of Domains Assessed:

Competence and Other Measures of General and Psychosocial Functioning

Language(s) :

English

Chinese

Dutch

French

German

Hebrew

Italian

Russian

Spanish

Thai

Age Range:

1-3

Measure Type:

Screening

# of Items:

42

Measure Format:

Questionnaire

Average Time to Complete (min):

6

Reporter Type:

Parent/Caregiver

Average Time to Score (min):

5

Periodicity:

Last Month

Response Format:

3-point scale: 0=Not true/rarely, 1=Somewhat true/sometimes, and 2=Very true/often. A "No Opportunity" code allows raters to indicate they have not had the opportunity to observe the behavior.

Materials Needed:

Paper/Pencil

Other Materials Needed:

Testing stimuli (e.g. pictures, testing kit)

Information Provided:

Areas of Concern/Risks

Continuous Assessment

Raw Scores

Strengths

Training

Administration Training:

< 4 Hours Training by Experienced Clinician

Other Training to Interpret:

Not available

Psychometrics

Notes on Psychometric Norms:

There are no norms, but the manual provides means and standard deviations by gender and age (12-17 months, 18-23 months, 24-29 months, 30-35 months) for preliminary comparison purposes.